| Fashion - 470 pages
...uncontrollable impulse of dread, the burden of the whole — " For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." First he takes you to the door, shows you the neglected garden,... | |
| Henry Mayhew, Mark Lemon, Tom Taylor, Owen Seaman, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Francis Cowley Burnand, Sir Owen Seaman - English wit and humor - 1892 - 362 pages
...but darkened by the influence sad Of slow disintegration. O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is Haunted ! There speech grew wild and rankly as the weed, GKVUAH with TANNKU... | |
| American literature - 1846 - 608 pages
...roof the sky shone, barr'd With naked beam and rafter. ' O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear . A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ' " The flow'r grew wild and rankly as the weed, Roses with thistles... | |
| Thomas Hood - English literature - 1845 - 434 pages
...never foot upon that threshold fell, To enter or to issue. O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted. Howbeit, the door I pushed — or so I dreamed — Which slowly,... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1845 - 442 pages
...veiled the tapestry at all, Or portrait frowning grimly. O'er all there hung the shadow of a fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted ! LIFE IN THE SICK ROOM.* OF all the know-nothing persons in this... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell - 1846 - 620 pages
...roof the sky shone, barr'd With naked beam and rafter. " O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted! " The flow'r grew wild and rankly ns the weed, Roses with thistles... | |
| 1846 - 534 pages
...express the vividness of the entire conception. . . . . ' O'er all there hung a shadow and a fear ; A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted. ' The wren had built within the porch, she found Its quiet loneliness... | |
| Thomas Hood - 1846 - 672 pages
...creature could have feasted there, Even the most ferocious ! For over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper hi the ear, The place is haunted ! PART iit. Tis hard for human actions to account, Whether from reason... | |
| Methodist Church - 1848 - 660 pages
...into a large room, lighted with a dim uncertain twilight. "And over all there hung a cloud of fear, A sense of mystery the spirit daunted, And said, as plain as whisper in the ear, The place is haunted." When they had entered, the doctor locked the door, and commanded... | |
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